Example sentences of "never [been] [vb pp] [prep] any " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grievous bodily harm has never been defined with any precision , and the authoritative description is ‘ really serious harm ’ . |
| 2 | Throughout the century , there has lurked in the undergrowth of the common law a judge-made weapon of great flexibility and force which has never been defined with any great precision or examined closely by either House of Parliament . |
| 3 | The notion of randomness is especially unclear , in the sense that it has never been defined in any consistent way . |
| 4 | There is no law on emotional damages , for instance , if it has never been decided by any statute or precedent or other procedure specified by convention either that people have a legal right to compensation for emotional damages or that they do not . |
| 5 | That had never been mooted at any previous stage and ran completely counter to the management plan which was to explore the possibility of placing T. with her older half-sister as her full-time carer . |
| 6 | He had never been charged with any criminal offence . |
| 7 | It seems that a course of dealing can be established even though the terms have never been incorporated into any of the contracts between the parties . |
| 8 | Lodge himself , in his own admirable novels , has never been hampered by any lack of conviction that the language he employs is really about the social realities that he wittily records . |
| 9 | Through the Lafayette — and perhaps more particularly through the heroism of Victor Chapman at Verdun — there began to develop in the United States an appreciation and sympathy for the poilus themselves such as had never been provoked by any other battle . |
| 10 | Premonition , who had never been seen with any chance in the Derby , won the 1953 St Leger . |
| 11 | The work of this major artist has never been seen in any depth in Europe . |
| 12 | Specific allegations have never been made against any of these groups . |
| 13 | All this is trite law and the contrary has , so far as I know , never been argued in any case which has come before the courts under the Act of 1977 . |
| 14 | I was hoping to see the Seychelles black parrot , which has never been recorded from any island other than Praslin . |
| 15 | Late in the dynasty , some species developed an even more sophisticated kind of eye and one that has never been paralleled by any other animal . |
| 16 | She kept , it was said , her own household and ruled her own fiefs , and although her name had never been linked with any man Alexei knew of , marriage to her was not a prospect which he thought he would be able to face with equanimity . |
| 17 | ‘ I have never been considered in any way ; it was always yourself . |
| 18 | The defendants could have found product liability insurance easily , ( see also on this point Flamar Interocean Ltd v Denmac [ 1990 ] 1 Lloyds Rep 434. ) and the term was universal in the trade ( but had never been negotiated by any trade association ) so that the plaintiff had no opportunity of obtaining product on other terms . |
| 19 | Our interview policy excludes no-one , and our pages have never been dominated by any one style . |
| 20 | As in Sonia 's case , the Home Office have turned down Prakesh 's application to stay in this country , saying her case has been fully considered , despite the fact that she has never been interviewed by any Home Office officials , and despite the fact that there are compassion circumstances to be considered . |
| 21 | That fact that , since Vendelin Gajdusek had apparently never been interviewed by any journalist , he would not see anything out of the ordinary in her particular interviewing technique . |
| 22 | It is fairly rare these days to find adults who have never been interviewed in any survey . |